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Author: Gabrielle Hamilton
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Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011 Gabrielle Hamiltons memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, is just what a chefs story should be--delectable, dripping with flavor, tinged with adrenaline and years of too-little sleep. What sets Hamilton apart, though, is her ability to write with as much grace as vitriol, a distinct tenderness marbling her meaty story. Hamilton spent her idyllic childhood on a wild farm in rural Pennsylvania with an exhilarant father--an artist and set builder--and French mother, both incredibly special and outrageously handsome. As she entered her teens, however, her family unexpectedly dissolved. She moved to New York City at 16, living off loose change and eating ketchup packets from McDonalds worked 20-hour days at a soulless catering company traveled, often half-starved, through Europe and cooked cooked for allergy-riddled children at a summer camp. The constant thread running through this patchwork tale, which culminates with the opening of her New York City restaurant, Prune, is Hamiltons slow simmering passion for cooking and the comfort it can bring. To be picked up and fed, often by strangers, when you are in that state of fear and hunger, became the single most important food experience I came back to over and over, Hamilton writes, and its this poignant understanding of the link between food and kindness that makes Blood, Bones & Butter so satisfying to read. --_Lynette Mong_From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Owner and chef of New Yorks Prune restaurant, Hamilton also happens to be a trained writer (M.F.A., University of Michigan) and fashions an addictive memoir of her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a chef. The youngest of five siblings born to a French mother who cooked tails, claws, and marrow-filled bones in a good skirt, high heels, and apron, and an artist father who made the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Hamilton spent her early years in a vast old house on the rural PennsylvaniaNew Jersey border. With the divorce of her parents when she was an adolescent, the author was largely left to her own devices, working at odd jobs in restaurants. Peeling potatoes and scraping plates-And that, just like that, is how a whole life can start. At age 16, in 1981, she got a job waiting tables at New Yorks Lone Star Cafe, and when caught stealing another waitresss check, she was nearly charged with grand larceny. After years of working as a grunt freelance caterer and going back to school to learn to write (inspired by a National Book Foundation conference she was catering), Hamilton unexpectedly started up her no-nonsense, comfort-food Prune in a charming space in the East Village in 1999. Hamilton can be refreshingly thorny (especially when it comes to her reluctance to embrace the foodie world), yet she is also as frank and unpretentious as her menu-and speaks openly about marrying an Italian man (despite being a lesbian), mostly to cook with his priceless Old World mother in Italy. (Mar.) (c) PWxyz, LLC.
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Author: Peter Trawny
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In 2014, the first three volumes of Heideggers Black Notebooksthe personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war yearswere published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heideggers philosophy, not simply in passing remarks, but as incorporated into his philosophical and political thinking itself. In Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy, Peter Trawny, the editor of those notebooks, offers the first evaluation of Heideggers philosophical project in light of the Black Notebooks. While Heideggers affiliation with National Socialism is well known, the anti-Semitic dimension of that engagement could not be fully told until now. Trawny traces Heideggers development of a grand narrative of the history of being, the being-historical thinking at the center of Heideggers work after Being and Time. Two of the protagonists of this narrative are well known to Heideggers readers the Greeks and the Germans. The world-historical antagonist of this narrative, however, has remained hitherto undisclosed the Jews, or, more specifically, world Judaism. As Trawny shows, world Judaism emerges as a racialized, destructive, and technological threat to the German homeland, indeed, to any homeland whatsoever. Trawny pinpoints recurrent, anti-Semitic themes in the Notebooks, including Heideggers adoption of crude cultural stereotypes, his assigning of racial reasons to philosophical decisions (even undermining his Jewish teacher, Edmund Husserl), his endorsement of a Jewish world conspiracy, and his first published remarks on the extermination camps and gas chambers (under the troubling aegis of a Jewish self-annihilation). Trawny concludes with a thoughtful meditation on how Heideggers achievements might still be valued despite these horrifying facets. Unflinching and systematic, this is one of the most important assessments of one of the most important philosophers in our history. In 2014, the first three volumes of Heideggers Black Notebooksthe personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war yearswere published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heideggers philosophy, not simply in passing remarks, but as incorporated into his philosophical and political thinking itself. In Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy, Peter Trawny, the editor of those notebooks, offers the first evaluation of Heideggers philosophical project in light of the Black Notebooks. While Heideggers affiliation with National Socialism is well known, the anti-Semitic dimension of that engagement could not be fully told until now. Trawny traces Heideggers development of a grand narrative of the history of being, the being-historical thinking at the center of Heideggers work after Being and Time. Two of the protagonists of this narrative are well known to Heideggers readers the Greeks and the Germans. The world-historical antagonist of this narrative, however, has remained hitherto undisclosed the Jews, or, more specifically, world Judaism. As Trawny shows, world Judaism emerges as a racialized, destructive, and technological threat to the German homeland, indeed, to any homeland whatsoever. Trawny pinpoints recurrent, anti-Semitic themes in the Notebooks, including Heideggers adoption of crude cultural stereotypes, his assigning of racial reasons to philosophical decisions (even undermining his Jewish teacher, Edmund Husserl), his endorsement of a Jewish world conspiracy, and his first published remarks on the extermination camps and gas chambers (under the troubling aegis of a Jewish self-annihilation). Trawny concludes with a thoughtful meditation on how Heideggers achievements might still be valued despite these horrifying facets. Unflinching and systematic, this is one of the most important assessments of one of the most important philosophers in our history. **
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